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Poems and Essays:
“I’ll Settle for a Moment of Glory”: Lesbian-Feminist Poetry in Washington
“What was it like?”
“You have a beautiful voice”: snippets of a laureateship
2012
26 | Sandy Hook*
5AM Blues
By Broad Potomac’s Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation’s Capital
, Edited by Kim Roberts (University of Virginia Press, 2020)
A Black Girl Sings: Gwendolyn Bennett in the Harlem Renaissance
A Blizzard Blues
A Hindu Prayer
A Jewish Cemetery in Büdingen, Germany
A Present
A Small Tribute to Philip Levine
A Splendid Wake Issue
A Writing Assignment from Rita Dove
Affinity with Orwell
After I Xeroxed the Sky
After the Mammogram
Against the Wall
Alain Ginsberg Portfolio
Amulet; What I Dwell On; Uninvited Guests; Teeth; What We Shall Become; Dybbuk; There for the Grace; War Doesn’t Want; Far-flung: Barbara Goldberg
An Accounting
An Area of Possible Encounter: William Stafford in Washington, DC
An Interview with James A. Emanuel
Andrea Carter Brown: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Anna Nicole’s Dream
Annie Finch Portfolio
Ante Sandy
As Powerful as a Gun
At the Emlekpont Remembrance Museum
At the One Step
At the Trolley Museum
At Watergate
autobiography
Back to the Woods
Barbara Goldberg Translates Moshe Dor
Betty’s Book
Big Bang
Billy Collins Interview
Birdland
Black Schist
blues poem
Bones
Bound
Brothers
Burgi Zenhaeusern Translates Egla Morales Blouin
Cecelia Was Born in Chicago And This Imprinted on Her Life
Cemetery
Charles Wright Interview
Christina Daub Translates Blanca Wiethüchter
Christmas Day in Washington
Claim Our Chaos
coffee with a married woman
Constellations
Crossings
Cycles
Dan Vera: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Danielle Badra Portfolio
Danielle Evennou Portfolio
Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka Translates Lidia Kosk
DC Poetry Anthologies
DC Slam History
Deborah Sobeloff Translates Egla Morales Blouin
Deep in These Woods
Delicious, New Edition, 1986
Detective Lennie Briscoe: This is His Story
Difference Between Heaven and Hell
Dig, Find, Make Way
Down the Aisle
Dream Variation
Early Cinema
El Sueño del Mundo (Dream of the World): Ada Zapata-Arriarán, translated by Indran Amirthanayagam
Elisavietta Ritchie Translates Anna Akhmatova
Excerpt from
Graffiti Calculus
Festival of Season Words
First Freed
First Fruit (And Aftermath)
Five Poems
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Five Poems by Anya Creightney
Five Poems by Audrey Wurdemann
Five Poems by Carolyn Joyner
Five Poems by Jona Colson
Five Poems from
Between Gods
Five Poems from
How to Prove a Theory
Five Poems from
Lion Brothers
Five Poems from
Meanwhile
Five Poems from
Meeting Bone Man
Five Poems from
Umberto’s Night
Five Poems from
When the World Breaks Open
Five Poems in Response to “Romeo and Juliet”
Fly
For Ann Darr at the Air and Space Museum
For My Beloved
Four Poems
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Four Poems by Kimberly A. Collins
Four Poems by Natalie Clifford Barney
Four Poems by Rasha Abdulhadi
Four Poems from
Boyishly
Four Poems from
Day of the Border Guards
Four Poems from
Elegies for New York Avenue
, plus an extra
Four Poems from
Immigrant
Four Poems from
In the Company of Spirits
Four Poems from
Monster
Four Poems from
Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown
Four Poems from
Stronger Than Cleopatra
Four Poems from
The Invented Child
Four Poems from
Words Facing East
Four Poems from
Words We Might One Day Say
Four Poems in Response to “Mary Stuart”
Four Poems in Response to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Fourteen Poems by Jessie Redmon Fauset
Frac/tions
Friend
From Friends to Griots: The Modern Urban Griots
From June 2015 in LGBTQ History
Good Friday
Grace Cavalieri: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Grass
Gray Jacobik
Grief
Guilford Courthouse
Gypsy Girls
Harlem
Henge
Hilary Tham: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Holly Karapetkova Translates Dostena Lavergne
Holly Karapetkova Translates Kiril Merjanski
Homage
Homing; Come and find me; Singularity: Anne Casey
How the Past Appeared
How to Visit Baba Yaga
How We Were, How We Are
Howard Nemerov
Hunted
i come to the city
I Woke from the Dream
Impossible Bottle
In Every Dream an Orphan Builds a House
In Siberia
In the Garden
In the Magnificent Region of Courage: An Interview with Louise Glück
Indigo
Interval
Interview with Josephine Jacobsen
Interview with Kim Roberts
Interview with May Miller
Interview with Richard Wilbur
Interview with Sterling A. Brown
Interview with Ted Kooser
Introduction
Introduction and Table of Contents: Langston Hughes Tribute Issue
Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Issue
Introduction to The Jewish Issue
Introduction to the LGBTQ Issue
Introduction to the Slam Issue
Introduction to the Sterling A. Brown Tribute Issue
Introduction to U.S. Poets Laureate Issue, Part II
Introduction, “Poets Respond to Shakespeare”
Introduction: Envisioning the Future
James Dickey: In Touch with Darkness
January 21, 2013
Julia Leverone Translates Francisco Urondo
Kaleidoscope
Karl Shapiro, Poet and Anti-Critic
Kateema Lee Portfolio
Katie Davis: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Kindness
La Petite Amie
Lake Rosseau, Canada
Lately
Leda in Red Sneakers: A Remembrance of Mona Van Duyn
Leeya Mehta Portfolio
Lives Like Otters, Seen by Angels
Looking at Buds
Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices
Macomb Street Workshops
Mathematics of a Storm Surge
Maureen Thorson: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Max and Frieda’s Guide to Fine Dining for Sexagenerians
Mea Culpa
Mercy
Messages from the Other World
Metal Anniversary
Michelangelo’s David
Minus the Body
Mirrors
moneymaker
Moonrise Over Washington
Morning with Butter Sky
My Jacob
My Mother’s Belly
Myra Sklarew on William Stafford
Nancy Arbuthnot and Lê Pham Lê Translate Lê Pham Lê
Naomi Ayala: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Natasha Trethewey Interview
Natural
Never
Nine Poems by Charlotte Forten Grimké
Nine Poems by Gwendolyn Bennett
No Longer Disastrous
Not a Ghazal: Snapshots from the Museum of Life
Notes on Debridement
Of Course, Volcanic Activity Has Nothing To Do With Climate Change
Of Thee I Sing III – America You Deserve
On Archibald MacLeish
On the Bus with Rita Dove
On the Incoming Tide
One Poem
One Poem from
These Days
Oracle of the First Kiss
Outerspace
Patricia Davis Translates Francisco de Oraá
Patricia Davis Translates Juan Garrido Salgado
Patricia Davis Translates Lucia Robles
Periplum
Peter
Pioneers of a New Breed
Poetry Behind the Scenes at the Library of Congress
Prawn Woman
Preface to the Some Of Us Press Issue
Prom
Queer Currency
Queuing for Lenin
Randall Jarrell in Washington
Randi Ward Translates Guðrið Helmsdal
Reasons for Poetry
Regie Cabico: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Reinaldo Arenas and Roberto Valero: Friends and Exiles in Washington, DC
Relax, Relate, Release
Remembered by Name
Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
Returning
Revisionist History
Rick Black translates Rachel Bluwstein
Rita Dove Interview
Robert Pinsky Interview
Rochester and Jane on the Kiss-Cam
Rodeo, North Dakota
Roland Flint and Siv Cedering Fox
Sam Allen, aka Paul Vesey
San-San Tin Translates San-San Tin
Sarah Browning: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Saundra Rose Maley Translates Rainer Maria Rilke
Saundra Rose Maley: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Scars of Last Year’s Leaves
Seven Poems by Elinor Wylie
Shake, Alabama
Shallows II
Shard
Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Caddo Parish
Shoes of the Dead
Six Poems
Six Poems
Six Poems
Six Poems from
A Language the Land is Inventing
Six Poems from
The January Children
Six Poems from
The Mustard Seed
Snowbound
Some of My Favorite Jokes
Sonnet
Sonnet for a Namesake
Spacer
Spender on Political Poetry in the 1930s and Auden’s Poetic Brinksmanship
Startled
Storm Crossing Key Bridge
Tea in the Late Afternoon
Tender Days
Tercentenary of the Landing of Slaves at Jamestown
Teri Ellen Cross: Tenth Anniversary Issue
The Baby
The Bee
The Correspondence of Louise Bogan
The Day of the Gwendolyn
The Elephant in the Room: Kay Ryan
The Facts of Life
The Field at Potts Camp
the fire this time. remembering april, 1992.
The Generous Spirit of American Poetry: An Interview with Joseph Brodsky
The Goldfinch
The Howard Poets in Perspective
The Library and its Laureates: The Examples of Auslander, Williams, Dickey & Kumin
The Lyrebird
The Marital Bed
The Neighborhood, Changing
The Poet and the Mule
The Poetry Office: A Photo Essay
The Tenaciousness of Spark Matsunaga
The Uncontrollable Elements: An Interview with Mark Strand
The Writer Who Changed the Future: On Gwendolyn Brooks
Things I never want to hear again about race and racism
Things My Mother Taught Me
Thirteen Poems by Leonora Speyer
Three Minutes Apart
Three Poems
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Three poems from
Blocks
Three Poems from
High There
Three poems from
Ice Fishing
Three Poems from
Moving Violation
Three Poems in Response to “Richard III”
Three Poems in Response to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Three Skulls on an Oriental Rug
Three Translations of Poems About Moscow
Three translations of poems by Gerardo Diego
Three translations of poems by Rene Char
Ting Wang Translates Chen Li
To Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Crusader
To John Brown
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké
To the Dunbar High School
Toad
Toni Asante Lightfoot: Tenth Anniversary Issue
Two Poems
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Two Poems from
A Little Truth on Your Shirt
Two Poems from
Lamplights Used to Feed the Deer
Two Poems in Response to Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Prose Poems
Two Prose Poems
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Two Sonnets
Two Sonnets
Visits to St. Elizabeths
W.S. Merwin and Eco-Justice
Walt Whitman Visits the Civil War Hospital in the Patent Office (Now the National Portrait Gallery)
Walt’s Notebook
Whale Songs
What Part of Me Will Die Today?
What to Call Her
While in Pursuit of the Perfect Summer Purse
White
Why I Don’t Write Nature Poems
Wiedergutmachung
Woman’s Home
Yoga
Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher Translate Maria Teresa Ogliastri